Alba Party's first local authority group formed in north-east
© DC Thomson Leigh Wilson and Alastair Bews joined the Alba Party last month. Three north-east former SNP councillors have joined forces to form the Alba Party’s first local authority group. Aberdeenshire Council is the first authority in Scotland to have an official Alba Party group, consisting of former SNP members Leigh Wilson, Alastair Bews and Brian Topping. Mr Wilson and Mr Bews quit the SNP last year and shortly afterwards set up the Democratic Alliance group with Green councillors Paul Johnston and Martin Ford. They then joined Alba last month and claimed the move would “provide ...
Source: eveningexpress.co.uk